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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W. B. INGRAM.

COTTON PRESS.

No. 271,467. Patented Jan. 30,1883.

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W. B. INGRAM.

COTTON PRESS.

No. 271,467. Patented Jan. 30,1883.

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Urrn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WUILLIAM B. INGRAM, OF LILESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM J. COX, OF SAME PLACE.

COTTON-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Ala-271,467, dated January 30, 1883. Application filed November 13, 18 82. (No model.)

To all whom itmey concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. INGRAM, of Lilesville, in the county of Anson and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and Improved Cotton-Press, of which the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of a simple, cheap, and efficient contrivance for working a cottonpress by hand or power, the said contrivance consisting essentially of a pair of rock-levers located at the sides of a vertical case to work the follower, the power being applied to them Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved press, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of another side.

The case a is-erected vertically within a suitable upright frame, I), supported upon any approved bed-frame c, the top of the front and back sides, (I, terminating a little above the top of the frame 0, while the other sides, 0, extend sufficiently farther up to serve for guides to the barf of the follower g by the slots h therein, the said cross-barf being connected to the follower g by the-rods i, in order that the follower may be swung away from ovei the case, as represented in dotted lines 9, Fig. 1, to allow the case to be filled. The sides 6 are notched at the top of the slots h, as shown at j, to permit the cross-barf to turn for so swinging the follower. The follower is suspended by a cord, 70, from a small Windlass, l, at the top of the sides e, to be employed for raising up the follower to begin with. The cross-bar fis connected at each end by a rod, m, with I one end of a rock-lever, n, which is pivoted centrally at 0 between the partsp and q of the frame, and has a segmental rim, 8, at the other end, whereon a working cord or band, 2?, is at tached and connected to the windlass-shaft u. to which the power maybe applied in any approved way, but is here represented as being in the thickness of ihebales from end to end.

The platform 2 is attached to the frame of the machine in suitable relation to the handwheel 3 for the operator to stand on to work the wheel conveniently.

The doors for opening the case at the lower end for the discharge of the pressed bales are to be pivoted to the bed-frame at a, and they may be secured, when shut, by bars bor other approved means. Itwill be seen that while the leverage of the power as applied by the ropes t is uniform, by the effect of the segments, that of the levers on the follower in creases as the resistance increases by the varying angles of the rods in with the centers 0,

thus enabling great pressure to be applied to the bales by means of hand power apparatus.

It will be noticed that the contrivance of the press is such that with the exception of a few bolts and rods it can be constructed of wood by the ordinary mechanical skill generally at command in most places.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A 1. The combination of Windlass u, ropes t, rock-levers n, segmental rims s, and connecting-rods m with the follower of a press, substantially as described. I

2. A lever or levers, '11, connected at one end with the follower mechanism and at the other with the Windlass mechanism of a press, to cause the leverage to gradually increase with the resistance, as described.

WILLIAM B. INGRAM.

Witnesses:

J. 0. NEW, W. T. WILLIAMS. 

